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Preview - Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

By Seow Tein Hee - 3 Oct 2008

T for Touch (and Taco)

T for Touch (and Taco)

The 5800 XpressMusic, as we have mentioned, comes with a generous 3.2-inch display, running at a 16:9 aspect ratio with its 640 x 360 resolution and up to 16 million colors support. Having a 3.2-inch screen allows one to easily swipe through the device with your fingers and thumbs, and during our short stint with the 5800 XpressMusic, we found ourselves not searching for the bundled stylus to flip through the expansive icons on the interface. It's hardware delivery is not too shabby either, delivering a quad-band network support with HSDPA connectivity on top of its Wi-Fi and Bluetooth setup. Moreover, the device comes with GPS and is A-GPS ready. As with most multimedia devices, Nokia has wisely thrown in a 3.5mm audio jack and a TV-out port for good measure too.

Perchance you would like to give your neighbours an earful (a good one at that), we were treated to the built in surround sound stereo speakers, which sounded pretty decent to our audio receptors. For the heavy music listeners, the 5800 XpressMusic is rated at up to 35 hours of music playback, and 9 hours of talktime. And equally important for the music lovers, the 5800 XpressMusic does come with microSD expandability, supporting SDHC compatibility as high as up to 32GB (theoretically). Nonetheless, to give consumers a headstart, the 5800 XpressMusic will come bundled with an 8GB microSD to store your music tracks, which will be especially useful if you were to purchase it with the Comes with Music package.

To put things into perspective, we present a few profile shots of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic for your viewing pleasure (do pardon the photography due to the warmer hues from the lighting conditions).

The 5800 XpressMusic, measuring in at 111 x 52 x 15.5mm and weighing 109g, felt comfortable in our hands when we first picked it up.

As you can see from this image, Nokia has concentrated most of its connection ports at the crown of the device, such as (from left), its power out, 3.5mm audio jack (which doubles as the TV-out port) and finally the USB port.

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